Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

PhDTalks | Integrating optical and radar imaging to enhance river drought monitoring

Our next PhDTalks Seminar will be held on tuesday 5th march in Fassò Room (Building 4A), from 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm CET.  PhDTalks is a series of seminars and discussions between PhD students. The events are aimed at providing a place to network and get in contact with many of the projects developed in our department.  Speaker Stefano Conversi will talk about “Integrating […]

Exploiting computational models for (near) real-time landslide risk assessment

On March 11th, at 12:00 AM, a seminar titled “Exploiting computational models for (near) real-time landslide risk assessment” will take place in Room Grandori (Building 4 – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 – Milan).The seminar will be conducted by Dr. sc. Anil Yildiz (Methods for Model-based Development in Computational Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany). Abstract […]

PhDTalks | Investigation of channel aggradation due to sediment overloading

Our next PhDTalks Seminar will be held on tuesday 19th march in Fassò Room (Building 4A), from 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm CET.  PhDTalks is a series of seminars and discussions between PhD students. The events are aimed at providing a place to network and get in contact with many of the projects developed in our department.  Speaker Hasan Eslami will talk about “Investigation of […]

Seminar CS⁴ | Sustainable management of water resources in a changing world

Seminar Scientific Commission CS⁴ “Sustainable management of water resources in a changing world” Event info: Subscription Form  Webex room Seminar Poster   PROGRAM 14:30 – 15:50 / Guest Speakers Prof. Günter Bloeschl (TU Wien, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management) – “Hydrological change across scales – floods and droughts” Prof. Ana Soares (Cranfield University, Water Science Institute) – […]

Biogas upgrading coupled with wastewater treatment in algal-bacterial photobioreactors

On April 3rd, from 9:30 to 11:30, a seminar titled “Biogas upgrading coupled with wastewater treatment in algal-bacterial photobioreactors” will take place in Room Fassò (Building 4A – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 – Milan).The seminar will be conducted by María del Rosario Rodero (postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Processes of the University […]

Investigating nitrate losses and nitrous oxide emissions under varying water tables in artificially drained fields

On May 3rd, from 11:00, a seminar titled “Investigating nitrate losses and nitrous oxide emissions under varying water tables in artificially drained fields“ will take place in Room Fassò (Building 4A – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 – Milan). The seminar will be conducted by Dist.Prof. Chandra Madramootoo (Distinguished Professor at McGill University, Montréal, Canada). Speaker’s bio […]

Earthquake Response: The Case of Turkey and Morocco (2023)

On May 16th, from 10:15, a seminar titled  “Earthquake Response: The Case of Turkey and Morocco (2023)“, will take place in Room B.5.2 (Building 14 - Nave, Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32). The seminar will be conducted by Giulia Jole Sechi (PhD candidate on the role of digital technology in informal settlements construction […]

Simulation of concentrated non-Brownian frictional and adhesive suspensions in linear and nonlinear flows

On May 16TH, from 14:30, a seminar titled “Simulation of concentrated non-Brownian frictional and adhesive suspensions in linear and nonlinear flows“ will take place in Room 7.1.3 (Building 7 – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 – Milan). The seminar will be conducted by Michel Orsi (Postdoctoral Research Associate and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Levich […]

Overview of LEQUIA’s Adsorption and Drinking Water research lines

On Thursday, May 23 at 2:30 PM in room PT1 (Building 20), a dissemination and networking seminar will be held as part of the European project safeCREW. The seminar is titled “Overview of LEQUIA’s Adsorption and Drinking Water research lines“, and it will be presented by Alba Cabrera Codony (Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University […]

Strategies and construction materials to build a more sustainable future

On Wednesday, May 29 at 11:30 AM in Fassò room (Building 4A - Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32), a seminar titled "Strategies and Construction Materials to Build a More Sustainable Future" will be held by Belén González-Fonteboa and Sindy Seara-Paz (University of A Coruña, Spain).  Abstract Environmental degradation is one of the biggest problems mankind […]

Air pollution health impacts & implications for environmental justice

On June 11th at 11:30 in Grandori Room (Building 4, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32) a seminar titled: “Air pollution health impacts & implications for environmental justice“, will be held by Prof. Paola Crippa (Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame). It will […]

Breaking the stigma on academic mental health

On June 11th at 16:00 in Grandori room (Building 4 – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32), a seminar titled “Breaking the stigma on academic mental health” will be held by Dr. Stefano Zucca (Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow, Università di Torino). Abstract Mental health and wellbeing in academia has recently been the focus of global investigations, with several studies, […]